CHANGES.md

unreleased

• Removed deprecated rpc virutal package

9.0.0 (June 2022)

• Breaking: change Cmdlinergen to use non-deprecated types (psafont #172)

8.1.2 (February 2022)

• Add the noargs constructor for declaring interfaces that do not take any parameters. (tbrk #170)
• Allow Xmlrpc callers to override the base64 decoding function. (tbrk #171)

8.1.1 (November 2021)

• Ignore error about using f-strings in python bindings (psafont)
• Compatibility with rresult 0.7.0 (psafont)

8.1.0 (March 2021)

• github: test with 4.12 (psafont)
• ppx_deriving_rpc: make compatible with ppxlib.0.18.0 (NathanReb)

8.0.0 (October 2020)

• Drop reliance on base in ppx_deriving_rpc
• rpclib-async: cleanup opam file
• rpclib (breaking) rename notif -> is_notification

7.2.0 (October 2020)

• ppx_deriving_rpc: fix a transitive dep on base to enable support for recent ppxlib

7.1.0 (June 2020)

• Test suite refactoring
• Port to latest ppxlib
• Add ~strict flag to xmlrpc generation
• Support encoding/decoding of base64
• port to dune 2
• Add the possibility of having null as params in a requests for JSON-RPC

7.0.0 (December 2019)

• Add basic support for JSON-RPC notifications

6.1.0 (December 2019)

• opam: updated bounds on a more conservative basis
• travis: tests more compilers
• tests: disable useless-object-inheritance on pylint checks
• pythongen: generate python2-3 compatible bindings
• Add ISC license
• Incremented the upper bound for async's version.
• Added lower bound for js_of_ocaml in related .opam file.
• Fixed compilation issue with js_of_ocaml 3.5.0 and 3.5.1.
• opam: remove the 'build' directive on dune dependency
• opam: remove unnecessary flag
• port to dune

6.0.0 (November 2018)

• Fix ppx_deriving_rpc for newer ppxlib
• test_pythongen: ignore W504, it's breaking the internet and is pointless
• Add more tests and documentation
• ppx_deriving_rpc: Switch to ppxlib from ppx_deriving
• Fix marshalling of optional named parameters
• Add failing test of optional/unnamed args for rpcs
• CA-291118: Register an exception printer for IDL errors

5.8.0 (June 2018)

• rpclib:
  • New Rpc.Types variants for 3- and 4-tuples
  • pythongen: fix generated exceptions
  • Remove broken Rpc_client
• ppx_deriving_rpc:
  • rpcty ppx: Add support for 3- and 4-tuples

5.7.0 (June 2018) -- rpclib only

• Add optional strict parameter to jsonrpc.of_string to ignore trailing junk from input. The old behaviour (strict=true) is the default.

5.6.0 (June 2018) --

• rpclib, rpclib-async, rpclib-ppx:
  • Remove duplication in .mlis, expose MarshalError, add docs
• README
  • Document IDL generator
• rpclib:
  • pythongen test: make pylint checks stricter

5.5.0 (June 2018) -- rpclib only

• pythongen:
  • Correctly call superclass init in exceptions
  • Generate classes for errors in interface
  • Fix tuple typechecking

5.4.0 (June 2018)

• ppx_deriving_rpc:
  • rpcty ppx: Fix warning 27 in generated field setter
• rpclib:
  • pythongen:
    • Fix Python argparse CLI
    • Fix generated _test class to pass typechecking
    • Add tests using CLI

5.3.0 (May 2018)

• ppx_deriving_rpc:
  • rpcty ppx: Avoid warning 23: "with clause is useless"
• rpclib:
  • markdowngen:
    • document params with same types but different defs
    • escape special HTML and markdown chars

5.2.0 (May 2018) -- rpclib only

• markdowngen: document nested variants and structs
• rpc: remove rpclib-html from compat layer

5.1.0 (May 2018)

• Lint generated Python code in unit test
• Reorganize tests & convert to alcotest
• markdowngen: show content of structs and variants in the documentation
• drop support for ocaml 4.03.0
• pythongen: generate pythonic code that passes linting
• pythongen: introduce an optional helpers field to inject custom versions of helpers
• pythongen: use a dictionary lookup for the dispatchers
• pythongen: display method description for methods

5.0.0 (May 2018)

• camlp4: delete as it is moved in ocaml-rpc-legacy
• port to jbuilder, and splut the library into
  • ppx_deriving_rpc
    • rpc (compatibility meta-package)
    • rpclib-async
    • rpclib-html
    • rpclib-js
    • rpclib-lwt
    • rpclib

4.2.0 (May 2018)

• idl: support unnamed parameters in Lwt and Async GenClient & GenServer
• Lwt, Async GenClient: use correct RPC call wire name
• Make sure fns are added with correct name in GenServer
• Add client<->server interop test for IDL

4.1.0 (Apr 2018)

• rpc_lwt: runtime check if all server as been bound to a function
• rpc_async: runtime check if all server as been bound to a function
• Avoid stack overflow due to List.map in Jsonrpc, Rpcmarshal, ppx

4.0.0 (Apr 2018)

• idl.ml: Change marshalling of named optional arguments to exclude them from the argument record
• pythongen.ml: Fix type checking for optional record fields

3.2.0 (Mar 2018)

• idl.ml: make server check for completeness of the implementation
• idl.mli: hide details of server impl
• Add a space to store test data in an abstract type
• Add the type name to the ppx-generated variant value
• Improve the markdown documentation generator.
• idl: enforce use of 'internal_error_of' in Error.Make

3.1.0 (Feb 2018)

• ppx_deriving_rpcty: use native split_on_char on ocaml >= 4.04.0
• ppx_deriving_rpcty: Fix 'Warning 27: unused variable x.' on deriving rpcty for structs

3.0.0 (Jan 2018)

• lib: remove use of cppo after dropping support for ocaml 4.02.3
• add support for async and core >= v0.9.0

2.3.0 (Jan 2018)

• For tuple contains more than 2 elements, fix the element order when deriving rpcty
• pythongen, rpc_genfake: improved failures for Abstract types
• cmdlinergen: implement Abstract
• add support for ocaml 4.06
• Remove unnecessary warnings
• Add failable tests for ocaml-4.06
• opam: add upper bound to async
• opam: remove [configure] from the build stanza

2.2.0 (Dec 2017)

• Remove warnings by extending pattern matches in {cmdliner,markdown}gen
• Redefined to_a with a safer interface
• Add a way to explicitly mark a tuple list as a dict
• Allow the use ocamldoc tags rather than [@doc ...]
• Add an 'abstract' typ.
• Deprecate xmlrpc from/to char producers
• Deprecate jsonrpc from/to char producers
• Port the jsonrpc module to yojson

2.1.0 (Sep 2017)

• Add defaults for polymorphic variants (@jonludlam)

2.0.0 (Aug 2017)

• Fix some cases of non-compliance with the JsonRpc v2.0 specs (@kc284)
• Check the structure of error objects of JsonRpc v2.0 is spec compliant (@kc284)
• Add new function to retrieve the version and id of JSON-RPC alongside the Rpc.call from the request body (@kc284)

1.9.53 (Jul 2017)

• Delay evaluation of Cmdlinergen terms (API breaking change) (@jonludlam)
• Accept marshalled ints when unmarshalling floats (@johnelse)

1.9.52 (Jun 2017)

• Fix compilation on MacOS X (@djs55)
• Add a ClientExnRpc functor that takes an RPC impl as argument (@jonludlam)
• ppx_deriving_rpc: Fix marshalling of dictionaries in the rpcty code too (@jonludlam)
• ppx_deriving_rpc: Allow unnamed parameters in functions to introduce compatibility with the old camlp4 idl (@jonludlam)

1.9.51 (May 2017)

• Support Ocaml 4.03+ (@mseri)
• Fixed javascript and htmlgen backends (@mseri)

1.9.50 (Mar 2017)

• Add a ppx to replace 'with rpc'
• Add a new mechanism for defining IDLs (inspired by ctypes), to replace the 'idl' syntax extension

1.6.0 (July 2016)

• Add support for JSON-RPC v2

1.5.4 (June 2015)

• Fix struct_extend handling of option types (with test)
• Add opam file for development
• Add travis

1.5.3 (Nov 2014)

• Add a mechanism for performing upgrade

1.5.2 (June 2014)

• Change license to ISC

1.5.1 (May 2014)

• make js_of_ocaml dependency optional (@djs55)

1.5.0 (Oct 2013)

• Abstract interface over Async and Lwt (@jonludlam)
• Remove some debug messages (@djs55)

1.4.1 (May 2013)

• Add support for using the browser's JSON parser (@jonludlam)

1.3.0 (Jan 2013)

• Add support for Int32 (@jonludlam)
• Make unmarshalling of variant types case insensitive (@jonludlam)
• Make Xmlrpc and Jsonrpc interface look more alike (@jonludlam)
• Support for recursive types in the IDL (@jonludlam)
• Improve installation instructions (Daniel Weil)